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The complete 16-part FBI UFO investigation file, released through the Freedom of Information Act. Field office teletypes, headquarters memos, witness interview summaries, inter-agency correspondence, and laboratory analysis requests covering the Bureau's involvement with the flying saucer phenomenon from 1947 onward. Includes J. Edgar Hoover's handwritten annotations demanding access to recovered material, the Guy Hottel memo describing crashed saucers in New Mexico, and decades of reports forwarded through Bureau channels.
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